Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

By connecting Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and the rest of the state into a Texas S tartup Megatropolis we can unlock billions of dollars in capital and unleash thousands of diverse entrepreneurs. Texas is the most promising technology investment opportunity in the United States and Capital Factory is going to turbocharge it.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 23, 2019

This is different from the rest. Should the main menu be horizontal or vertical? While there’s a strong case against left-vertical menus , two studies (2003 and 2004) claim it’s better. If you do use vertical menus, make sure they’re aligned left. Modified-Delphi method.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

I Hate Business Plan Competitions Yet this same conversation reminded me why every time students at Berkeley or Stanford tell me they’ve entered a technology business plan competition, I question whether they are wasting their time. And even if you did it’s the wrong focus, and time spent for a startup 2.

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Software By Rob

JULY 1, 2010

For a startup, this means avoiding “me too&# products, staying away from horizontal niches, solving a pain-point, and targeting a vertical niche. The lesson: stick to vertical niches. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2014

Then we went into my 3 favorite methods for increasing conversions by improving the search experience. A closer look reveals the search functionality just blends into the rest of the design, and isn’t intuitive to find when needed. In another case study , LED HUT was able to increase site search conversions by 200%.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

So I generally feel right at home in these conversations. But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. But for the rest of us, who create content because we care passionately about having an impact on the world, we need to rethink the process by which we do it.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how TikTok Ads work and how you can create campaigns that grab attention and turn interest into conversions. directly resulted in conversions. By placing your message front and center, Brand Takeovers can deliver high impressions, making them an effective way to increase brand awareness and conversions.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 13, 2014

Investors in this category are usually operating executives who have spent their entire careers in a specific industry vertical, like internet travel, for example. Pros: Industry-insider who serves as a validator for the rest of the investment syndicate, extremely helpful advice and network connections.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

If you understand why each metric is where it is, the rest of this post will fill you with euphoric joy rarely experienced without physical contact. The number is computed based on a ML algorithm that has learned from deep analysis of your user behavior and conversion data. Reflect on the above picture. If yes, hurray!

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

When it comes to Generative AI, the incumbents are not resting on their laurels. Sierra’s mission is to ‘be the conversational AI platform for businesses’ The company raised an $85M “seed” round. Vertical AI agents – automate workflows in specific industries (say health or industrial).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

A contemporary analog to this type of vertical integration is Comcast/NBC-U. When Facebook was opening up their platform, these guys thought that it was an interesting way to do user acquisition and preference acquisition of individuals and that they would be able find a way to monetize it in commerce-oriented verticals.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Twitter and Facebook can generate traffic, but when it comes to getting an immediate action, like a sales conversation, I’d rather hang out where business is being done, not where news articles and cat videos are consumed. Who cares: we want the shortest path to a conversation, not necessarily traffic to your site. Open rates: 70%+.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2019

How it plays out in your head: While waiting for their food, your customer would strike up congenial conversations about their lives with your staff—and they would love nothing more than to spend the last third of their visit filling up your feedback forms with praise. Run the numbers and make sure you can afford to take that chance!

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Investors in this category are usually operating executives who have spent their entire careers in a specific industry vertical, like internet travel, for example. PROS: Industry-insider who serves as a validator for the rest of the investment syndicate, extremely helpful advice and network connections.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2017

It’s such a difficult and often counterintuitive game that the more time and attention you devote to accepting guidance at the beginning, the more misery you will be spared in your golfing career for the rest of your days. Get immersed, and spare them some of the misery that often comes along with self-teaching.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

It’s very frustrating to be led through a long conversation with no substance to be told no. But, when you listen to some of these successful founders, you start to see how similar they are to the rest of us in their early struggles, and you start to feel less lonely on this journey. For startups, time is our most precious commodity.

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Venture Chronicles

APRIL 19, 2010

Particularly interesting was the conversation with CEO Zach Nelson, who aside from presenting a confident and knowledgeable front for the company is a very likable guy who is willing to field tough questions and deliver thoughtful responses.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 9, 2016

Typically, when people think of false bottoms, they think of vertical scrolling. Research is an important part of any conversion. By not designing to accommodate scrolling, you’re taking away that part of the conversion. Since vertical scrolling is more familiar to most people, let’s start there.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 22, 2013

Mashable named 2013 “The Year of Responsive Design” But is responsive web design actually the answer to boosting mobile conversions? The company is implementing both a responsive design and a tablet-optimized catalog to boost their mobile and tablet conversions, and clearly its paying dividends. Think Thank Photo.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This post is inspired by some of the earliest conversations I have had with the team here at NextView and since the beginning of my VC journey. The chart below illustrates this, with the black vertical line representing the average VC return. Back in 2018, my colleague Rob wrote a blog post about how the VC asset class is doing.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

In each page, seek one sentence that sums up the rest of the page. The system would choose the appropriate group for each situation (mobile device held vertically, wide screen TV, spoken aloud, user preference, whatever comes next). Lets have a personal and meaningful conversation instead. Find elevator pitches. Your name *.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This post is inspired by some of the earliest conversations I have had with the team here at NextView and since the beginning of my VC journey. The chart below illustrates this, with the black vertical line representing the average VC return. Back in 2018, my colleague Rob wrote a blog post about how the VC asset class is doing.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Right now, we are working a “Magic Mirror” demo for the show that allow people to walk up to a huge, 100-foot vertically placed TV and see themselves beamed into cyberspace. For the rest of the team, it’s their first. Long term, we believe that AR is going to completely change the retail experience.

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The Startup Toolkit

JULY 13, 2013

The public version is masked in positive spin and skirts the difficulties of the situation, but it’s clear that a series of honest and difficult conversations have happened behind closed doors. Without the willingness to focus, all the rest of this would have been just arm-waving. Here comes the fun bit! Colour me skeptical.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

At the end of a run I used to lay out and relax on the rocks to rest – at least I did, until the guards asked if I knew that there were more poisonous things per square foot here than anywhere in the world.) Yet if turned my head the other way, I’d stare out at a landscape that was untouched by humans. It shunned publicity.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 3, 2014

But when they somehow stumble on the right things , they are able to see significant increases on conversions. What goes on in the rest of the page plays a huge role. It stands out from the rest of the page, acts as a visual cue to answer the question Where should I click? People have mostly no idea what to test. image source.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2023

Her new book Talking on Eggshells: Soft Skills for Hard Conversations , shows you how to speak up instead of shut down, face challenges head-on instead of running the other way, and keep your cool even when others don’t. Get your copy of Talking on Eggshells: Soft Skills for Hard Conversations Sam’s website. Like this show?

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. All of your complaints apply equally to just as many freeware programs and many commercial applications (ever worked on a vertical market app? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? 23 Sean Harlow on 08.11.09

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

The rest of the entrepreneur interviews Pat does are very worthwhile listens also. They were critical to winning the rest of the market, which largely followed their moves. Cracking the code on product-market fit is “the only thing that matters” according to one of our largest and most helpful investors at data.world, Pat Ryan.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

The rest of y’all are missing out, seriously. Here’s a “conversion” I’d like to get out of everyone in our space: I want you to start A/B testing, because it will make you a substantial amount of money. Conversion Rates: Up. Email is a numbers game and the numbers are very motivational indeed.).

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. Consider these thoughts for example: car parks will be a thing of the past as we send our cars home to rest. If we have a conversation at someone else’s house, we generally have to follow their rules which can be changed at any time without notice.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. Consider these thoughts for example: car parks will be a thing of the past as we send our cars home to rest. If we have a conversation at someone else’s house, we generally have to follow their rules which can be changed at any time without notice.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 24, 2018

And while companies might still organize themselves as a hierarchy, how we get work done now is less vertical and much more horizontal. And so, if you do that as an entrepreneur, it already sets you apart from the rest. And so what they do is they say in conversations they say, “Well, we know who they are.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2016

We have established clients in some of the world’s largest companies, across multiple interesting verticals such as telecom, banking, travel and entertainment, and commerce. There’s who you are and what you do but the true core of your brand and I think the center of your life rests in the answer to why.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 3, 2024

Use that value to pay for the rest. ” Billion dollar failures, and billion dollar success [Tom Conrad in Conversation with Lenny Rachitsky] – Just a great pod between two product minded humans. If you want to release your software as open source, release the bit (or a bit) that doesn’t have intrinsic business value.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Investors in this category are usually operating executives who have spent their entire careers in a specific industry vertical, like internet travel, for example. PROS: Industry-insider who serves as a validator for the rest of the investment syndicate, extremely helpful advice and network connections.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 15, 2011

People are used to 2 kinds of menus: horizontal and vertical. People don’t need to see a menu to know where the ‘contact’ link is at – by default they look for it as the last link in a horizontal menu or the bottom link in a vertical one. 5% improvement in conversions. Ensure they find it there.

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